Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein
Pedro Arduino
Frank McKenna
Tatsuhiko Sweet
2018-11-06
<p>The official tool homepage for the PileGroupTool is <a href="https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/learning-tools/pile-group-tool/">here</a></p>
<p>The SimCenter Pile-Group Tool provides a dynamic interface to study the behavior of a pile or pile-group in layered soil. It allows the user to interactively (and nearly instantly) observe the system's response to changes of the following parameters:</p>
<ul>
<li>soil structure (up to 3 layers of variable thickness) and soil properties</li>
<li>position of the ground water table</li>
<li>pile stiffness, embedment length, connection type to the pile cap</li>
<li>number of piles in the group (one to three piles)</li>
<li>the applied horizontal force at the pile cap (push-over analysis)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Presented results include</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>lateral displacement of all piles</li>
<li>moment and shear diagrams for each</li>
<li>vertical soil stresses</li>
<li>ultimate strength and stiffness parameters for the employed <em>p-y</em> springs</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>New in this release</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixes a scaling bug where parameters were inaccessible on smaller displays</li>
<li>Fixes an update bug when forces or applied displacements were changed using the up/down arrows in DoubleSpinBoxes</li>
<li>Adds axis labels and units to the result plots</li>
<li>Removes the "hints" section to better work on smaller displays</li>
<li>adds a Quick Tips section and pop-up to the Help menu. This replaces and expands the removed hints section</li>
<li>minor updates to the UI</li>
<li>some minor performance updates internally.</li>
</ul>
This work is funded by the National Science Foundation under grant CMMI 1612843
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1478813
oai:zenodo.org:1478813
Zenodo
https://github.com/NHERI-SimCenter/PileGroupTool/tree/v2.1.0
https://zenodo.org/communities/nheri-simcenter
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410659
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BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
NHERI-SimCenter/PileGroupTool: Version 2.1
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